Women in the Bible

Woman Wisdom

Job 28:1-28, Proverbs 1:20-33, 3:13-18, 4:1-9, 7:1-5, 8:1-36, 9:1-6, 14:1)

*Also mentioned in the Apocrypha (see Apocryphal Women); Apocryphal references: Wisdom 6:12-11:1; Sirach; Baruch; Esdras

List of Reading & Resources:

Articles

• “Woman Wisdom: Bible” by Claudia V. Camp in Jewish Women’s Archive

• “The Women in the Book of Proverbs: Woman Wisdom Versus Woman Folly” by Scott Ventureyra

• “Proverbs: Lady Wisdom & Lady Folly” podcast episode of Bible Project (July 1, 2019)

• "Wisdom's Table is God's Table" by Wil Gafney

• "Woman Wisdom and the Woman of Substance" by Christine Roy Yoder

Books

• “In the Beginning with Lady Wisdom” podcast episode of Bible Project (May 10, 2021)

• “Wise and Strange: An Interpretation of the Female Imagery in Proverbs in Light of Trickster Mythology” by Claudia V. Camp, (pp. 131-156) in A Feminist Companion to Wisdom Literature, ed. Athalya Brenner (1995)

• The Divine Feminine in Biblical Wisdom Literature: Selections Annotated & Explained by Rabbi Rami Shapiro (2005)

• "Proverbs" by Christine Roy Yoder in Women's Bible Commentary, edited by Carol A. Newsom, Sharon H. Ringe, and Jacqueline E. Lapsley (2012)

Apocryphal Resources

• "Woman Wisdom in the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books" (pp.550-552) by Claudia V. Camp in Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books, and the New Testament, edited by Carol Meyers (2001)

• "The Wisdom of Solomon" by Sarah J. Tanzer in Women’s Bible Commentary, edited by Carol A. Newsom and Sharon H. Ringe (1998)

• "The Book of Sophia" by Silvia Schroer in Searching the Scriptures, Vol. 2: A Feminist Commentary (1994)

• "Woman Wisdom: Bible" by Claudia V. Camp

• Sophia: The Future of Feminist Spirituality by Susan Cady, Marian Ronan, and Hal Taussig